So am I the only one that actually clicked on the link and watched the video? Before he mentions Watch Dogs, it's almost three minutes of Glenn Beck trying to link Call of Duty to suicide (and mass murder as an afterthought). Then it's three minutes of him describing the game, then he finally gets into his crackpot theory that somehow Watch Dogs teaches real life hacking skills. He also apparently thinks the main reason people would use the skills they're apparently getting from the game to turn on the camera in peoples' phones while they're sleeping, which is even crazier than the idea that the game is teaching hacking, or that hacking is automatically a bad thing. Oh, and about 8 minutes in he goes into a rant about how using an e-reader somehow screws up the process of reading, and makes it impossible to find where in a book you read something (because you're not physically handling the book, and apparently progress bars don't exist, so there's no way to tell where you are while reading, it's all some crazy blur). He also compares videogames, smart phones, and tablets to crack cocaine, and says that that's where the blame for mass shootings should be, as opposed to movies or guns. He closes with a statement that A.) friends aren't necessary, B.) your family is[footnote]An entire post could be written on just how bad that statement is. Some people have good reason to prefer friends over family, some people have crappy families. Even if they didn't, it's normal and healthy to have relationships outside of your immediate family.[/footnote], and C.) we need quiet time, which apparently can't happen anymore because technology.
All in all, I'm really not sure why we're giving this whack job the publicity. He was too crazy for Fox, it's why he's got a blog and a radio show now instead of a cushy spot on prime time TV. He won't go away if we keep paying attention to him.
All in all, I'm really not sure why we're giving this whack job the publicity. He was too crazy for Fox, it's why he's got a blog and a radio show now instead of a cushy spot on prime time TV. He won't go away if we keep paying attention to him.
